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I only produce movies that have something stylistically different, so that I can learn from the experience of producing.

Guillermo del Toro

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Guillermo del Toro
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: October 9
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Novelist
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Television Actor
Television Producer
Guadalajara
México
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I'm a big fan of the Harry Potter books, but I'd love to do one where one of the kids dies, or one of the main characters dies. I love for those things to have a little bit more tragedy.
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And yet one carries the sins of his forebears as one carries their features in his face. One bears their blood, and their honor or their blight.
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What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek.
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In a world where we are so pragmatic and materialistic, fear is the only emotion that allows even a sophisticated person to believe in something beyond.
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Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge--the abyss.
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Hellboy is the first movie where both ends of the spectrum are combined
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The butterfly does not look back upon its caterpillar self, either fondly or wistfully it simply flies on.
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Never fly commercial. That's the moral of this story.
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I have a sort of a fetish for insects, clockwork, monsters, dark places, and unborn things
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For any actor to have Oliver Stone call him or her up… It’s a compliment. He expects you to be on your toes. If you’re not, he pokes at you until you react. He’s very provocative, creatively. It started like a lot of hard work, but it ended up a lot of fun.
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I think part of making movies is dealing with restrictions of freedom and budget. I'd rather deal with restrictions of budget. It's better to feel free within any budget.
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You have to believe the magic to see it.
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I believe in man. I believe in mankind, as the worst and the best that has happened to this world.
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I don't want to move over to Beverly Hills. My goal is to make the movies I want to make and support the people I want to support. That's it.
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Even if one understands that what one is doing is mad, it is indeed still madness -
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I think when you get all the money and all the freedom, rarely do you get a good movie out of it or a movie that you're proud of.
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In the medieval tradition, Beksinski seems to believe art to be a forewarning about the fragility of the flesh– whatever pleasures we know are doomed to perish– thus, his paintings manage to evoke at once the process of decay and the ongoing struggle for life. They hold within them a secret poetry, stained with blood and rust.
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When I was a teenager there was no video in my country. Betamax came to Mexico very slowly.
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...there's something about maternal love - it might just be the strongest human spiritual bond there is.
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Night is real. Night is not an absence of light, but in fact, it is daytime that is a brief respite from the looming darkness.
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